Category: 3 Big Ideas for designers, retailers and entrepreneurs.
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Guilt and Shame in the path of Artists and Designers
by Atim Annette Oton “Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.” – Peter McWilliams In the last few years of working with artists and designers, I have observed how fear has trapped…
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Lessons for 3 Friends: 2014 Resolutions to follow
by Atim Annette Oton The last few weeks of 2013, I decided to write a series of advice posts to 3 friends of mine who spent 2013 in some state of crisis and used fear as their main operator. These 12 posts are simple pieces of advice and may hit some nerves in others who…
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Creating Income as an Artist or Designer
by Atim Annette Oton I woke up early this morning reflecting on how many artists and designers I had worked with over the last five years who came to me with just two or three income streams and they had never really looked beyond the two jobs or three opportunities in the years since they left school. It’s…
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Some Fears that Designers and Artists Need to Dismantle in their Life and Work
By Atim Annette Oton Each month, I encounter artists and designers whose life and work are deeply engaged in fear in ways that even their creative minds can not overcome. I find there are four failures that define what they are experiencing and writing about them is a way to provide a guide and path…
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Breaking Serial Entrepreneurial Lessons of Failure
A serial entrepreneur is “an entrepreneur who continuously comes up with new ideas and starts new businesses. As opposed to a typical entrepreneur, who will often come up with an idea, start the company, and then see it through and play an important role in the day to day functioning of the new company, a serial entrepreneur will often come…
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The Head Game: 6 Ways to Break the What Ifs to do Life’s Work
by Atim Annette Oton Most people wonder why I seem to move ahead and succeed in what I plan or intend. My simple response is that my head game is extremely focused and inline with my life, goals and objectives, and I am on a mission to fulfill my dream. Additionally, I think positively and actually…
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Enjoying the Creative Process: A Lifetime Process
by Atim Annette Oton Several of my last postings have focused on the perils of artists and designers;so this week, I begin exploring the process of creativity that blossoms in the hands of success. My good friend Patricia would say that New York’s sun affected my mood this morning so, alas, the positive mode. Last…
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The Artist’s and Designer’s Cover-up: Fronting, Stuck, Hiding and Running Away
by Atim Annette Oton My last 13 years of working with artists and designers have revealed some deep and critical issues about how they handle themselves in crisis or make critical decisions. What it shows are four destructive paths that form the basis of self sabotage and result in failure, so when I began to…
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Change and Reinvention: The Art of Navigating your Art or Design Career
by Atim Annette Oton Change is one of the hardest places to get to or to do as an artist or designer, I know. Since graduating from architecture school in 1991, I have been strategic about making change and reinventing myself and career. The 1991 recession made me realize that it would be 10 times harder to get a…
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Succeeding as an Artist and Designer: Breaking through Failure
by Atim Annette Oton For the last 13 years, I have spent time counselling artists and designers about moving the careers to the next level. A good number of them have been emerging and established, but they have common threads when it comes to failure. Carolyn Edlund wrote the best list on how to fail as…
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